Ethical Source News Today

Wharton senior research developer Dawn Wages got her start coding on MySpace. The RealLIST Engineers 2021 honoree now helps others as they learn programming, and build community.

The Organization for Ethical Source Takes on Stewardship of Contributor Covenant GENEVA, May 27, 2021, the preeminent code of conduct for open source communities. "Today, this historic document enters the next phase of its evolution," said Nathan Schnieder, professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and OES member. "This milestone marks its exit to community, as Contributor Covenant graduates from a passion project into a community-owned asset." Contributor Covenant was cr...

The open-source Contributor Covenant is now managed by the Organization for Ethical Source Managing the technical side of open-source projects is often hard enough, but throw in the inevitable conflicts between contributors, who are often very passionate about their contributions, and things get even harder. One way to establish ground rules for open-source communities is the Contributor Covenant, created by Coraline Ada Ehmke back in 2014. Like so many projects in the open-source world, the Co...

Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman. This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community continues to reckon with, including a toxic environment toward women and an overall lack of transparency. In this piece, we chronicle the response over the last ...